Definitely a time for new beginnings. Beginning a blog, beginning work on the house-- AGAIN, hubby beginning a new job---AGAIN. I ran around today making cake for a family birthday and running errands. Now, time to begin a long night of exhausted sleep.
This is how the cake turned out

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